This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organized Crime

by Stephen Ellis

Book Overview

Nigeria and Nigerians have acquired a notorious reputation for involvement in drug-trafficking, fraud, cyber-crime and other types of serious crime. Successful Nigerian criminal networks have a global reach, interacting with their Italian, Latin American and Russian counterparts. Yet in 1944, a British colonial official wrote that 'the number of persistent and professional criminals is not great' in Nigeria and that 'crime as a career has so far made...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019049431X
• ISBN13: 9780190494315
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.6"